Water Damage Can Swamp Your Home Only Temporarily Because SERVPRO of Miami is in Charge.

When water damage affects your home, it can also affect important documents in your home. SERVPRO^® of Miami Beach is Here to Help^® with document drying services.

SERVPRO of Miami Beach: 305-532-5411

The driest months in Miami Beach, FL (January and February) have more humidity and rain than the wettest months in Flagstaff, AZ (July and August), and the comparison isn’t even close.

We probably wring more moisture out of our t-shirts on a typical January day than Flagstaff residents get in rain on a typical August day. We’re not slamming Flagstaff, not at all. We’re feeling envy. Don’t get us wrong; we love Miami Beach, but we wouldn’t mind a break from the humidity just once.  

Even with our lives built to withstand rain, water damage can happen. Sometimes the storms are too much, sometimes a roof leaks, and sometimes an appliance breaks down and leaks all over the place.

Whatever the cause, SERVPRO of Miami Beach is always available. Call 305-532-5411 any time of any day. We know emergencies can’t wait (that’s why they’re “emergencies”).

Document Drying

If you’ve spilled a glass of water or coffee (or wine or beer) on a pile of kid drawings, a community publication, or a family newsletter, you’ve seen how liquid quickly turns paper into a soggy transparent mess.

That’s okay when the documents are unnecessary or easily replaced. Sometimes, however, you need them, and you can’t use them in a gloppy stuck-together illegible mess. You know from experience that trying to separate the documents will turn the mess into translucent shreds.

Important documents may include:

• Tax documents
• Blueprints
• Non-digitized photographs, negatives
• Drawings, engravings
• Vital records
• Archives
• Invoices, receipts
• Contracts, licenses, diplomas
• Out-of-print books (or treasured for any reason)
• Almost anything

How SERVPRO of Miami Beach Helps Recover Documents and Photographs

We have special equipment to help recover documents. 

Freeze-drying technology lets us preserve documents and photographs so we can take digital photographs. For documents we need to preserve as they are, we have other, more complex methods.

We can also remove microbial growth (such as mold) and other contaminants from the documents, we can use ultrasonic vibration to separate documents from each other or from furniture and other belongings and disinfect and deodorize the documents and photographs, just as we do the other belongings.

Break for Trivia!

Sometimes our trivia crews go way beyond the scope of our topics, and this week was one of those times.

The Office of Unnecessary Knowledge wants us to know that while Silly Putty is a fabulous toy, it has non-toy uses, including:

• Removes ink, pet hair, lint, and dirt from various surfaces
• Useful for occupational therapy and physical therapy
• Astronauts use it to secure their tools in zero gravity

SERVPRO of Miami Beach

We don’t trivialize work.